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Kiley Reid — Come and Get It - with Glory Edim
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February 5, 2024
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1:04:17Now PlayingWatch authorKiley Reid's book talk and reading at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.
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It’s 2017 at the University of Arkansas, and Millie Cousins—a senior resident assistant at Belgrade Dormitory—just wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. One of her residents, Kennedy Washburn, is a junior transfer who has come to Fayetteville for a fresh start. And Agatha Paul is a writer and visiting professor who is itching for her next topic. When Agatha offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity to help each other further their own interests, Millie naturally jumps at the chance. But Millie’s starry-eyed side hustle soon becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue, forcing them all to question just how much of themselves they are willing to trade to get what they want.
A fresh and intimate portrait of desire, consumption, and reckless abandon, Come and Get It is a tension-filled story about indiscretion and bad behavior that explores the choices we make for and about money; the casual, unconscious ways we communicate class; and the things that can and cannot be paid for. It’s a fierce and honest story for our times—and a striking reminder to “rejoice that Kiley Reid is only just getting started” (NPR).
Kiley Reid is the author of Such a Fun Age, which was a New York Times bestseller and longlisted for the Booker Prize. Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, The Guardian, and others. Reid is currently an assistant professor at the University of Michigan.
Reid will be in conversation with Glory Edim. Glory Edim is the Director of Marketing at Politics & Prose and founder of Well-Read Black Girl, a book club and digital platform that celebrates the uniqueness of Black literature and sisterhood. She edited the Well-Read Black Girl anthology, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and named a best book of the year by Library Journal. The winner of the Innovator’s Award from the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, Edim worked as a creative strategist for over ten years and serves on the board of New York City’s Housing Works Bookstore.
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